I was just thinking, why us Em fans like MMLP?

not a hate thread( seeing as how I said us). I was just thinking, why do we like it? The lyrics are pretty gruesome, the entire album is dark( Who in there right mind raps about killing their wife? and asking their mom to “ take it like a slut”), there’s no pause in the album for a “ club banger”. Is it because it was so different from other rap out at that time? and the listeners saw it as a break from the “ Got a big crib, hot chicks, big cars, big money” formula. Maybe it was like a Larry Bird of rap thing like “ Yeah, white guys can survive in this genre.” Why do you fans, like the album?

I never sat down and really listened to the album but regarding Em’s whole style back in that era, the thing we love is that he really wasn’t in the right mind of a normal person like yourself (I inferred) and it’s just so many rhymes in short amount of time plus the way he organized the shit our brain just loves it even if the lyrics themselves go against our personality or rational sense and after all that he still found a way to include serious subject matter for us to think of (Stan is the greatest example)

That was the beauty of MMLP he wasn’t trying to have a club banger he was just having fun and dicking around. The lyricism was on a level that really couldn’t be copied thats how good it was at the time at least, the stories were really vivid and made it feel like you were there. Eminem, pac and j.cole are the only rappers to ever make me cry and Stan definitely took you to a place. Today’s music all labels care about is if you have a hot single going around or not. It held back j.cole for a long time because of that. And countless other nigga’s

For me what drew me in was Eminem’s crazy delivery and his lyricism. I think he had a great voice at the time and I look how much variety there is on the album. You have really dark but serious tracks like “Stan” and “The Way I am” and then you have less serious and more humorous tracks like “The Real Slim Shady”. This album is a classic and I think that is mainly down to Eminem’s lyricism.

I take seven [kids] from [Columbine], stand ‘em all in line,Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine, A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine, And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time

As shown above, he also said shit that caused a lot of controversy and at the time that this album was released, the stuff he was saying was not acceptable and it shocked people that he was saying all these things.

@DCGalaxy as sick as it’ll sound, Kim is one of my favorite tracks, not that I advocate slitting the throat of your wife, but the picture he paints doing his voice and her voice, you feel like you’re in the back seat, you can see him screaming at her and shit.

I didn’t actually read the OP I like MMLP cuz it was a HUGE FUCKING DEAL when it came out. I remember that shit. There was lots of shock value crap coming out back then and a lot of rap/rock shit but this actually scared people, people genuinely couldn’t tell if dun was joking Huge. Fucking. Deal. I mean it also has “Bitch Please II” which is a dope song, really fun, hasn’t age a day, I’m starting to get back into “The Real Slim Shady” after I spent YEARS avoiding that specific song cause that was one of the reasons why people didn’t take him serious rap conversations but I’ve actually come to realize that the 3rd verse is insane. I like that way it was constructed, it lacks the kind of flow like “Ready to Die” or “The Chronic” but it sounds complete, from beginning to end. It sounds like an album. he didn;t just tack “LP” to a shit album. It sounds like an album called *The Marshall Mathers LP" should sound (even though there is a lot of “Slim Shady” moments).

Imo it had Great Lyricism, Great Hooks, Production was great, Eminem’s Flow at his best altogether a great album the only alright song was Under The Influence but even their Eminem had a great verse and Hook.

MMLP is dope, before i went on the internet to see other peoples opinions and possibly be influenced by them, it was my favourite Eminem album and easily the best. I don’t play it much anymore because i went through that phase where Eminem was the only rapper i liked (we’ve all been there) and i just played SSLP and MMLP all day.

The Real Slim Shady is funny as fuck and i think it was one of the best songs on the album. When he was making fun of celebrites and pop chicks, that was hilarious shit, unfortunately Hopsin has now taken that style and thinks he’s the new Eminem when he ‘calls out’ half the rap industry.